The Army I joined in September 1975 (29 Sep, if you are counting at home-with mere days to spare for the GI Bill) was painfully transitioning to the all-voluntary service concept that replaced the draft. And slowly recovering from Vietnam. One aspect still in place was discipline-and violence. Nobody had any compunction or reservations about taking the rank off and going out back to have a “serious discussion.”
I don’t remember anybody getting seriously hurt from any of this-save an ego here or there, maybe a tooth or two. Somewhat of an unwritten rule was the “TT” one: if you were man enough to go out back, nobody was going to have sympathy for you if some shave tail kicked your butt. Kind of like hockey-to a degree-there were people you would mess with on the pond-those who would mess with you and those you wouldn’t…
Politics has become a contact sport-many would argue it always has been one. I think we have passed the point of no return and you know the Shinola is hitting the fan when they are going after the lawyers….I think it is astounding-unprecedented-Stasi-like and an absolute worst practice for the FBI-DOJ-to become so politicized that they are willing to violate attorney-client privilege, in this case when they accost folks like John Eastman in a parking lot and confiscated his cell phone.
And for what? Well, he was involved in providing counsel to the Bad Orange Man (BOM)—oh, okay, that is totally legit and different and no problem. The US govt-the lefties, democrats in government and politics, lamestream media, big tech—all same-same and now I’ve added academia-so the LSMBTGA are tearing the basis and fabric of the US asunder-the basis for our justice system of a land of the rule of law and not of men, to be replaced with vigilantism, activism, selective enforcement, ignoring precedent and convention-where and when did this become okay?
Presidents have used their administrations to go after opponents before, and he wasn’t the first to do so, but it is hard to argue against how a rogue, out of control executive willing to game the system can wreak havoc and expose the aspect of faith, reverence for the underlying principles and adherence to conventions-like “doing the right thing” can be upset-particularly in the short term-for expediency by folks willing to game the system with seemingly no compunction or obligation to play by the rules.
And of course, there are those who will be doing the drip-lip, but, but, but that BOM—and please respond with all-or a few-even 1 example of those things you believe qualify in this regard: love to see them (oh, and please don’t out yourself with silly propaganda like the “good people on both sides” lie, or the “Muslim ban,” or the ”Russia, Russia, Russia Pee Pee Hoax”-you can’t be taken seriously if you show up with pointed shoes with bells on them and a clown suit…in fact, maybe take a listen to this before exposing your buttocks.)
But no, I’m not talking about BOM, I’m talking about old “constitutional scholar” Obama here, who pretty much outslicked Slick Willie with his propensity to use a pen and a phone-damn the torpedoes-sign a King George-like edict and then sit back and wait for the inevitable lawsuit to make its way through the system…it takes a long time in most cases….
I think the most egregious “pen and a phone” effort was the “Dreamers” diktat, where he acknowledged he had no power to just “decree” special privileges and then did it anyway. Precious about this instance is that by the time it was challenged at the Supreme Court, BOM was in office.
Just in case you’ve forgotten, that “august body” incredibly decided that the Trump administration had failed to follow “the process” by violating the Administrative Procedure Act through the courts or perhaps feckless congress before taking this action (to cancel)-hahahahaha—unlike Obama creating it with his pen and phone legislating alone…
But the more insidious action that was an early tell that largely bypassed the public because of a lack of coverage by the LSMBTGA on the back story-was the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) where Obama played Slick Willy with his comments for nearly 16 years in the public eye, including a famous interview with a religious leader where he declared:
“I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God’s in the mix.”
Well, that was nice propaganda for the masses, but when the DOMA court date arrived in Virginia, no Obama Justice/DOJ “Wingman-Holder” official showed to take up the government defense of DOMA-this article explains why it was a dead man walking in terms of the state’s rights argument and it therefore went by the board and into the ether like a ship sinking in the night anyway, but still…
The IRS did not decide on its own to go after conservative groups like the Tea Party that had patriotic and republican sounding “themes” in their documentation. DOJ did not decide to go after journalists and news channels on their own, nor did they attempt to eliminate Fox News from the WH press corps or media pool. And yes-later when DJT started to do the same back at them-you could hear the howling from here over how unprecedented it was for it somehow to be giving it back to them in spades: but it wasn’t that BOM who set the precedent of the unprecedented….
The articles that acknowledge issues with Fox and Obama still cast it as all one-way, with Fox news dousing Obama down, while Trump’s spat was-well, Trump.
But DJT never went after these folks and their parents with subpoenas, wire taps and all the legal might inherent in the justice system like Obama did against Fox’s Jame Rosen and his family, as well as the Associated Press. Which Biden has been doing, as well. That is next level, corruptocrat, Stasi state-like action.
All that is bad-but if you wanted to see hyperbolic, hyperventilating, pearl clutching, people losing their minds-just scroll back in time a bit and think through when the two black racial righteous denizens of Obama’s orbit-Al Charlatan and Jessie “the philandering preacher” Jackson were making hay with the NAACP shaking down firms for not stepping up to the racial bar and making donations.
Obama ran afoul of Jackson for talking “down to black people” about the third rail topic of the lack of black fathers in the home-which has exceeded some 75% in the 21st century somewhat as a legacy of feckless, ineffective policies in support of the black community that favored victimhood and government dependency over true opportunity…but Obama-more the Community Organizer side of him-puzzlingly-although not unsurprisingly, given his upbringing divorced from the average American black’s lived experiences-picked up the “scam.”
It was not long before the Obama DOJ got into the game and began levying fines and fees on corporations that were pipelined right into-not the US treasury to mitigate tax burdens and provide some relief to the American people, but to political “friendlies” of the community organization “ilk” like ACORN which were doing much more important work than race relations to bolster re-election efforts. This is where his mentee learned this “trick.” From the (former) piece:
“The Obama administration, primarily the DOJ, negotiated settlements which required the settling defendants to pay “donations” to hundreds of its favored, politically-friendly third parties such as, for example, the National Council of La Raza, the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.”
If you look at how ineffective Obama was during his presidency-experiencing an unprecedented loss of influence when viewed through the lens of federal and state level elections-congress, governorships, mayoral candidates, councils, etc., his record in that regard was 180 out from his popularity.
But just imagine -and we will see some of these headlines in the future about the formerly feckless RNC—that the same LSMBTGA that was patently incurious when HRC took over a floundering DNC just in time to cut Bernie Sanders out of the picture to clear her path to the election-if when BOM was president-or this next time-like they say he is going to do-“Bom: the revenge tour”-as if there is a precedent there from his first term…
How about if the BOM DOJ and environmental lawsuits and fines against corporations-and I forgot to add the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau-were not going to the treasury but were going to conservative, right wing organization groups working on elections. Just like Biden has revived as a practice with policy executed by government and government funded entities with his executive orders…
The howling would be epic and delicious-but under Obama-at the time, and now under Joe Biden—move along, nothing to see here.
The case of John Eastman’s treatment-and in such cases it is almost better not to use a name because familiarity breeds contempt in any case that is linked to that BOM-but if we scroll back in history a bit we find somewhat of a minor flap with a candidate Supreme Court lawyer who had been counsel to-on behalf of her law firm-Guantanamo terrorists-which was a context of inquiry that had the potential to be tawdry and nitpicky and petty and wrong-headed, but was fortunately temporary and shouted down for all the right reasons. From the piece:
Jackson, 2021 responses to Senate questions: Under the ethics rules that apply to lawyers, an attorney has a duty to represent her clients zealously, which includes refraining from contradicting her client’s legal arguments and/or undermining her client’s interests by publicly declaring the lawyer’s own personal disagreement with the legal position or alleged behavior of her client. Because these standards apply even after termination of the representation, it would be inappropriate for me to comment on whether I disagreed with Khi Ali Gul, found his alleged crimes offensive, or considered resigning my position as an Assistant Federal Public Defender based on any such disagreement or offense.
Were lawyers to be tarred and characterized with the alleged sins of their clients-who would take to that profession? The above example was not that long ago-but the precedent has not endured for a number of BOM lawyers like John Eastman-who is likely to be disbarred by a political judge in a California courtroom, whose biggest beef seems to be that Eastman “has shown no remorse or contrition.”
While this piece by Johnathan Turley is somewhat dated and I don’t agree with portions of it, I think he strikes a balance that is sorely missing in the courts system today by these political appointees who seem hell bent to compete for headlines that pander to the rest of the LSMBTGA.
Judge Carter-referenced in the above piece-used the term “coup:” but wasn’t Trump the sitting president? What does that term really mean? While judges in Colorado found BOM guilty of (inciting) an insurrection: against himself? What does that term really mean?
The left dogma, tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) have resulted in an unprecedented retreat by the ACLU in getting involved in the majority of these egregious cases. Also-notwithstanding all his wealth-BOM has had difficulties getting and maintaining legal help and support because of the sliming his legal teams have been treated to by the entirety of the LSMBTGA.
The best precedent is the oldest and it’s the case John Adams took up when the trial was being conducted for the British soldiers who fired upon-and killed-colonists in the “Shot heard round the world” incident known as the Boston Massacre.
These legal precedents that have been set in the 21st century bode poorly going forward. There is no such thing as keeping a “lid on” or doing damage control once these actions are “out of the bag.”
If anybody has ever played the “telephone game,” you know how simple it is for a seemingly straightforward story to get bolloxed up when people are involved.
Now how about that presidential immunity? Were this Jeopardy, the answer might be “the president who killed known American citizens overseas with drone strikes…” Who was the “you can keep your doctor, keep your plan and save $2500” carnival barker guy….
Oh, my!
4 April 2024
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